News - USA

Entries from November 2005

Simple answer in my view is Yes. It would be very convient for Bush and Blair not to have an TV station that they have no control over to be silenced. The US bombed the Al Jazeera Ooffice in both Bagdad and Kabul these were according to the US, an accident. Now, your talking about a country that is able to target bombs so that they fly through windows and only knock out one floor. So, I don't tend to buy this argument.

So we come to recently, a leeked document that alleges that Tony Blair managed to talk Bush down as he wanted to bomb the Al Jazeera head office in in Quatar. Quatar obviously is a 'friendly' or as Bush would say, part of the coalition of the willing (willing to do what?). But, If anyone publishes this document, Blair will have any editor will be prosecuted under the UK's Official Secret Law, and will end up being dressed in a stylish orange or a fitting Yellow Green outfit.

So far Boris Johnson of the spectator is happy to publish this if he is given a copy of it.

The Attorney General's ban is ridiculous, untenable, and redolent of guilt. I do not like people to break the Official Secrets Act ... we now have allegations of such severity, against the US President and his motives, that we need to clear them up.

If someone passes me the document within the next few days I will be very happy to publish it in The Spectator, and risk a jail sentence. .. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. If we suppress the truth, we forget what we are fighting for

Reading this Link at Silicon Valley Sleuth Where by a college student who was charging her mobile phone that was resting on her bed. To quote:

The LG v6000 mobile phone of a student in Wyoming caused burn wounds when it exploded on the owner's bed, according to a Philadelphia ABC affiliate.

The student had placed the phone on her bed while it was being charged. The explosion burned a hole through her sheets and caused a large "popping" sound.

The owner had replaced the factory issued battery with an unapproved one – which in the past has caused several mobile phone explosions. Other than saying that she should've known better, these pictures might deter future battery skinflints.

Here's the phote:

So, basically the deal is this, when you get a battery for you phone, make sure it's not a fake or a contraband one that could blow your ear of and then you'll have some sore ear.